Hymns in Today’s Liturgy
Resurrectional Apolytikion (Tone 1)
While the stone was sealed by the Jews, and the soldiers were guarding Thy most pure body, Thou didst arise on the third day, O Savior, granting life to the world. For which cause the heavenly powers cried aloud unto Thee, O giver of life. Glory to Thy Resurrection O Christ, glory to Thy kingdom, glory to Thy providence, O Thou Who alone art the lover of mankind.
Apolytikion of the Transfiguration (Tone 7)
When, O Christ our God, Thou wast transfigured on the mountain, Thou didst reveal Thy glory to Thy Disciples in proportion as they could bear it. Let Thine everlasting light also enlighten us sinners, through the intercessions of the Theotokos. O Thou Bestower of light, glory to Thee.
Apolytikion of St. Thomas (Tone 3)
O Holy Apostle Thomas, intercede with the merciful God to grant to our souls forgiveness of sins.
Kontakion of the Transfiguration (Tone 7)
Thou wast transfigured on the mount, and Thy Disciples, in so far as they were able, beheld Thy glory, O Christ our God; so that, when they should see Thee crucified, they would remember that all Thy suffering was voluntary, and could declare to all the world that Thou art truly the effulgent Splendor of the Father.
Epistle
I Corinthians 4:9–16
Brethren, God has exhibited us Apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men. We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are ill clad and buffeted and homeless; and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the off scouring of all things. I do not write this
to make you ashamed, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the Gospel. I urge you, then, be imitators of me.
Gospel
Matthew 17:14–23
At that time, a man came up to Jesus and kneeling before Him said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and he suffers terribly; for often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to Thy disciples, and they could not heal him.” And Jesus answered, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.” And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured instantly. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” Jesus said to them, “Because you have no faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. This kind never comes out except by prayer and fasting.” As they were traveling together through Galilee, Jesus said to them, “The Son of man is to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill Him, and He will rise on the third day.”
Synaxarion
On 13 August, in the Holy Orthodox Church, we take leave of the divine Transfiguration of our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ. We commemorate the translation of the relics of our Righteous Father Maximos the Confessor.
O Maximos, thy dust is moved by the faithful, Showing, by exchanging places, that thou livest. On the thirteenth, they translated Maximos’ dead body.
At first, Maximos was a high-ranking courtier at the court of Emperor Heraclius and, after that, a monk and abbot of a monastery not too far from the capitol. He was the greatest defender of Orthodoxy against the so-called Monothelite heresy which proceeded from the heresy of Eutyches. He and his followers claimed that there is only one nature and one will in Christ. Maximos opposed that claim and found himself as an opponent of the emperor and the patriarch. Maximos did not
frighten easily but endured to the end in proving that there were two wills as well as two natures in Christ. Because of his efforts, a council was held in Carthage and another in Rome. Both councils rejected the teachings of the Monothelites. The suffering of Maximos for Orthodoxy cannot be described: he was tortured by princes, deceived by prelates, spat upon by the masses of the people, beaten by soldiers, exiled, imprisoned, until finally, with a severed tongue and hand, he was condemned to exile for life in the land of Schemaris, near Batum on the Black Sea, where he spent three years in prison and gave up his soul to God. In 680, twelve years after his repose, the Church translated the relics of Maximos from Lazia to Constantinople. On this day, we also commemorate Eudokia and Irene (Xenia) the empresses; and Venerable Dorotheos of Gaza and his disciple Dositheos. By the intercessions of Thy Saints, O Christ God, have mercy upon us. Amen.
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